The Tropical Fruit Forum

I’m pretty sure the sales are bi annual so I have another chance this year to get more stuff, but the Rare fruit council fruit tree sale at the fairgrounds near Royal Palm was great.
I got a
grafted: Yellow Birula and Rollinia

The Rollinia is fruiting/flowering profusely and just 16 inches 

An everbearing mulberry (with fruit)
A
Marshmallow Ilama
A vanilla orchid
 an ice cream bean

And a decent sized (around 25 inches) Celeste fig with little fruits on it already

I’m highly disappointed in myself for grabbing the Rollinia when I have. Giant 3 year old Rollinia in a 15 gallon in my backyard, and a seedling of what is said to be the biggest Rollinia ever, I think painters. The flowers exited me too much


Every type of atemoya or even other hybrids like sugarlata

The thing is I have plenty seedlings of those atemoyas, though no true grafts just seedlings. I figured I could get one I failed at grafting years ago, yellow birula. Lisa, gaffer, dream etc they had all those, now I’m wondering if I’m missing out big time not having those trees. I’m pretty sure there were no temoylatas or cherilatas so that out my mind at ease that I didn’t miss those. Do you guys think those are must haves? Or am I fine with my ilamas, hybrid seedlings and 3 rollinias. I also have spinescens and another unknown hybrid of two rare species annona spp.
 

I ordered seeds from overseas without a permit, and they got confiscated last year. It’s been on my mind recently and I’m wondering if because of that, I’m on some sort of list? What do you guys think? I do plan on getting my permit eventually but I don’t plan on buying any seeds overseas for a while, just not interested in anything right now

I keep seeing many ilama seeds with various names referring to different foods and flavors. Can you guys give me a good rundown on ilama taste based on its flesh and skin color, if it even matters? I get people saying raspberry, candy, cotton candy; I've even seen someone name one as vanilla. Help, I have to decide what I'm going to grow. I don't want one because it's rare and does not taste good when it fruits in a few years. Give me as many descriptions as you want, please. I also plan on growing it in pots; hopefully, if the oldest one I currently have fruits and my parents like, I can put it in the ground, although even that is risky.

Looking to start a collection of them soon but due to seed-to-fruit time being so long on this genus id rather wait a long while for the best tasting ones instead of random varieties.

Anyone have some for sale?

Would you say their prices are good? Reasonable? Great? Seedlings healthy etc?

Sold out before I found out the site was back up, anyone have any for sale? Seeds or seedling

At what age do they usually flower?

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Broadening my search for “fruit trees” that grow well in pots, I’m looking for uncommon/ rare fruiting shrubs, so far the only fruiting shrub (or tree that can be grown as a shrub) I have is Psidium myrtoides(supposedly sweet)

I plan to keep it in a pot, but becuase it takes so many years (which I can’t remember) to bear fruit, I’ve been neglecting it and keeping it in a small pot. I want a jaboticaba but I’m not sure which are the best tasting, fastest fruiting, and grow well in pots

Sorry if this shouldn’t be discussed here, I won’t name anyone, I don’t want to start any problems. To break this down in the simplest way possible, Bought a plant from a seller here, seller ships plant with bamboo stick in pot, bamboo stick literally churns up the root system of the plant in shipping, plant dies 7 days later, before plant died asked seller for advice to save it, followed sellers advice, plant obviously still died. Seller insist I send him the plant back to get my refund, I say sure, but it’s dead already. He asked if I used fertilizer (why would I use fertilizer on a rare tree seedling?) I say no, I did nothing to the plant. He says he’s gonna “test the soil”.

 He sends me instructions to get a return slip. No return slip link on my PayPal activity page for the money I sent. Decided to dispute with PayPal. I tell him I did. He sends me my money back, ask me to never buy from his store again, then blocks me, after that he unblocks to tell me I killed the tree then blamed it on the bamboo stake, and then insists that I added fertilizer to the pot and killed the plant (which I didn’t) ( and who’s stopping him from adding fertilizer to the pot when I ship him the plant and he just, you know, lies about it? It’s a lose lose for me)

I had firmly agreed to return the plant, yet he states I didn’t want to return the plant, (which explains why I supposedly added fertilizer to a tiny pot with a tiny rare SEEDLING that is extremely sensitive for god knows what reason?)

Funny enough, he tells me good luck etc etc and if I had a problem on the first day I should said something instead of a week later. It’s funny considering I did say something and he left me on read FOUR WHOLE DAYS.

Now tell me, based on what you’ve read. Am I just some bad person, or did I have valid reasons for wanting my refund? I have visual proof, and screenshots of every step of our conversations. Every single message, the dates, everything. I’ve learned to keep track of stuff like that from sellers who’d act like certain things weren’t said etc.

I don’t want any bad blood from anyone, I got a damaged product, I got my money back. There no issue. What I don’t want is a tarnished reputation and ending up being blacklisted by other sellers because I’m the guy who “kills his trees and blamed the seller” I’d rather not have that. Thank you for reading.

I’m making a list of all the plants I want to grow in pots, and it’s looking hefty. I realize it’s mostly just trees, so I’d like a list of good shrub fruits that are just haves in Florida

This is the list so far of plants I want but haven’t acquired yet
A.Tomentosa

A.Glabra

Annona Neosalicifolia

Duguetia stenatha

Manilkara Bella

Duguetia sp maranjo yellow

Annona monticola

Annona deceptrix

Duguetia lanceolata

Annona ubatubenensis

Annona warmigiana

Annona dolapretela

Annona sylvatica

Annona Crassiflora

Lemon drop mangosteen

Sapodilla


Jamaican strawberry tree

Miracle fruit

Solanum pachyandrum

Peanut butter fruit

Blackberry jam fruit

Ice cream bean

Loquat

Persimmon

Eugenia parrisii

Melon

Honey dew melon

Blueberries

Strawberries

Mulberries

Strawberry guava

Lemon guava

Psidium sp longipetiolatum

Psidium sartoranum